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Four people perished in a tragic carnage involving a bus and a tuk tuk that occurred along the Thika-Garrisa Highway at Makongeni area in Thika town on Friday afternoon.
The four; two women, a 10-year-old boy and the tuk tuk driver were crushed to death by the Ukambani-bound bus belonging to New Friends Sacco.
Eyewitnesses recounted that both the bus and the tuk tuk were heading in the same direction. The speeding bus hit the tuk tuk from behind.
The locals decried that the stretch is slowly becoming a black spot noting that in the past one week seven people have been killed in tragic accidents along the area.
They petitioned the government through the Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) to erect speed bumps and a footbridge in the area so as to reduce carnage and end loss of innocent lives on the road.
